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Idk about elsewhere, but dear lord, the BestBuy near me has so many employees it's hard to fit into the store. Literally every 2 steps a different employee asks if I need help, it's actually insane.
Chiming in here from NYC, every BestBuy in the metro area you have to literally make a scene to get an employee. One of my last visits I spent literally 15 minutes at an empty checkout with a staffed door, and all I could think was they can pay a guy at the door all day but no checkout people, why don’t I just steal my purchase? Thats what they consider important, no? Additional info, I usually go “early” (think noon) to these stores, but still seems sad.
As a German I would hate that from the bottom of my heart. Why is this necessary? When I go shopping in a supermarket here I'm lucky if I find an employee I can ask and outside the checkout they're always busy stocking the shelves. But that's not a bad thing, you can usually find everything quickly yourself and I prefer to have my peace when shopping. It's already enough for me that the store is full of other people who are also shopping.
I'm not entirely sure. Any time I go there is just full of huge groups of employees just hanging out chatting with eachother, then they swarm you as soon as they see a customer walked in.
My best guess is that because the demographics in this city skew way older, they need a lot of staff to help a lot of non-tech-savvy customers? That, or the owner isn't very concerned about spending money on staffing for whatever reason.
Honestly, while it does make me uncomfortable to go there, I'm overall in favor of it because it means more local jobs, which is always (well, almost always) a good thing. Like, it seems like a really chill job that pays above minimum wage, so I say those employees should milk it for all it's worth, haha.